[Katsukumi Onsen in Hakodate] Day Trip Bath and Onsen That Shinsengumi Toshizo Hijikata Took a Bath Can Be Enjoyed

Kakkumi Onsen

Kakkumi Onsen (川汲温泉) is a hot spring place in Kakkumi-cho located in the northeastern part of Hakodate city. 2 onsen ryokan, Katsukumi Onsen Ryokan (川汲温泉旅館) and Meirin-so (明林荘), are built along Hokkaido Road 83. The distance is around 30 km far away from the center of the Hakodate, and there are only Kakkumi Park and a campsite around here. But restaurants and a convenience store in the center of Minamikayabe (南茅部) are 2 km away for here.

Katsukumi River

The Kakkumi Onsen has opened a business since the early 18th century, Edo period. In addition, a damaged crane was cured by hot springs, so this onsen was called Tsuru-no-Yu (鶴の湯) at that time. * The crane means "Tsuru" in Japanse, and the hot water means "Yu" in Japanese. Mr. Tokunai Mogami (最上徳内) wrote an article in Yezozoshi (蝦夷草紙) together with Isoya Onsen (磯谷温泉), Shikabe Onsen (鹿部温泉) and Higashi Onuma Onsen (東大沼温泉) in 1790, and the Kakkumi Onsen is one of historical onsen in Hokkaido, too. It is said that a war was breaked out in Kakkumi Pass during times of Hakodate War, Mr. Toshizo Hijikata (土方歳三), a famous samurai of Shinsengumi, stayed at the predecessor of the Katsukumi Onsen Ryokan. By the way, Manjojiki Highland (万畳敷高原) and Ayame Marshland (アヤメ湿原) are relatively famous tourist attractions near here.

Atmosphere of Ayame Marshland Can Be Watched on Youtube

Movie of Ayame Marshland

By the way, diredct buses do not run between Sapporo or New Chitose Airport and the Kakkumi Onsen. But Express Hakodate-go (高速はこだて号) and Hakodate Limited Express New Star-go (函館特急ニュースター号), express buses, run between the Sapporo and the Hakodate. Unfortunately, the express bus does not run between the New Chitose Airport and the Hakodate. Besides, Rent-a-car can be rented around Hakodate Station, Hakodate Airport, the Goryokaku Fort and Hakodate Ferry Terminal.

HAKODATE

Hakodate (函館) that about 260,000 people live is the 3rd largest port city in Hokkaido, and is a regional hub city of the Southern Hokkaido area. The Hakodate became incorporated with Toi town (戸井), Esan town (恵山), Todohokke village (椴法華) and Minami-kayabe town (南茅部) in 2004, and most of Kameda Peninsula (亀田半島) has changed to the Hakodate. It is one of most popular tourist cities in the Hokkaido, and about 5 million people visit here. The downtown of the Hakodate from Mt. Hakodate toward former Goryokaku fort is developed on a large sandbar between the seas, and a unique seashore landscape is very popular. Although a lot of tourists think the center town of the Hakodate is around Hakodate Station and the Mt. Hakodate, it is around Hakodate Streetcar Goryokaku Koen-mae Stop (函館市電五稜郭公園前駅). The Hakodate is also well-known as a city with a lot of slopes, and there are 19 slopes with its name such as Hachiman-zaka slope (八幡坂), Daisan-zaka slope (大三坂) and Motoi-zaka slope (基坂), so around the Mt. Hakodate has a lot of slope lands, and the Hakodate has a lot of narrow roads. As for a climate, the Hakodate is wamer than other cities in the Hokkaido because it is located of the Southern Hokkaido, and it does not snow hard. Read More

View from Mt. Hakodate

List of Day Trip Onsen

Visitors can take a day trip bath at the Katsukumi Onsen Ryokan and the Meirin-so.

Katsukumi Onsen Ryokan

Katsukumi Onsen Ryokan is a small-sized long-established onsen ryokan, and its predecessor is Tsuru-no-Yu, and an onsen hut for cure was built in the Edo period. It is unusual things in the hot spring place of the Hokkaido that Memorial Service Monument of the Hakodate War and the Yakushido Building (薬師堂) are built on the site. An entrance fee to a bath facility is JPY 400. Now they accept hotel guests without meals.

Appearance of BuildingYakushi-Do BuildingEntrance of Bathrooms

There are 2 indoor baths at a public bathroom. The tiled bathroom is small but cozy, and emerald green tiles and round bath floor tiles catch bathers's eyes. The indoor baths are set beside walls. The large indoor bath is the size that about 4 people can take a bath, and water temperature is warm. The small indoor bath is the size that about 2 people can take a bath, and water temperature is hot, so pretty hot springs make the bathers get up. Both baths use 100% natural free flowing hot springs, and the hot springs overflow from the bath. I enjoyed watching the situation.

Look of BathroomHot Springs Are Gushing OutView from Small Indoor BathHot Springs Are Gushing OutView from Large Indoor Bath

The hot springs are simple hot spring, and are clear and colorless and have a little sulfur taste and a little sulfur smell. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 0.782 g/kg. PH is 9.0, but the hot springs did not have smooth and slippery touch, and I felt the touch was mild. I suppose that the hot springs are drinkable.

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Clear and Colorless Hot Springs

Shampoos and body soaps are provided at the bathroom. Free hair dryers are provided at a dressing room, but there is not a restroom, so you should get a wash beforehand at the restroom along a corridor.

Adult: JPY 400. Junior high school and elementary school student: free of charge.

Business hours

06:00-20:30

Regular closing day

Irregular closing day

Parking lot

A free parking is provided (10 cars)

Telephone number

+81-138-25-3330

Home page

Home page is not provided

Mapcode

582 821 246*01

2019 Katsukumi-Cho, Hakodate City

Meirin-so

Meirin-so is a long-established onsen ryokan founded in 1953, and is well-known for a traditional building with beautiful fall foliage along the Kakkumi River. Because a parking lot is always closed, I am afraid whether it open a bussiness. A photography is prohibited around the building. An entrance fee to a bath facility is JPY 440. They does not accept hotel guests at present. There is 1 indoor bath at a public bathroom. The tiled bathroom with a high ceiling is small but cozy, and reminds me of good old Japanese Sento. A dressing room is linked with the bathroom by a staircase.

Appearance of Building from Kakkumi Onsen Ryokan

The square tiled indoor bath is the size that about 4 people can take a bath, and uses 100% natural free flowing hot springs. A shower is not installed at the bath space, so you must pour the hot springs on yourself to rinse off your surface dirt and sweat before entering the bath. The hot springs are simple hot spring, and are clear and colorless and have tastless and a little sulfur smell. The sum total of the hot spring ingredients are 0.790 g/kg. Shompoos and bodysoaps are not provided at the bathhouse, so visitors have to bring those.

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I am from Nayoro, and used to live in Kushiro and Sapporo, and have been back Hokkaido after I lived in Kanagawa prefecture for 14 years again. Around 50-year-Japanese old boy mainly have released articles that I found nature, tourist attractions, onsen and foods in the Hokkaido to the non-Hokkaido people. I am bad English, so I apologize if you do not understand the meaning. Using photos are my photos, free images, various tourism associations’ photos and photos cited from official websites and so on. Reproduction of my photos and texts from within this site is prohibited.As for my photos, I used to provide those for profit, but I stop providing the photos now. Most of youtube movies belong to others, and I just share those on my blog.